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Not really into this Occultist, it's OP enough it covers a lot of my mistakes, but just not for me. Zoomed through the Acts/Labs fast though.
Drops have been crap for the witch, but I've got a bunch of decent ranger uniques/rares for leveling, including a rare bow, the only 6 link I've had drop yet.
I had fun with a CA ranger last league, was one of the few alts I took past A10, figure I'll try something similar. Want to see if I can use Bane over a totem, as I really like that skill, but not sure if it will be a good fit at map level.
Drops have been crap for the witch, but I've got a bunch of decent ranger uniques/rares for leveling, including a rare bow, the only 6 link I've had drop yet.
I had fun with a CA ranger last league, was one of the few alts I took past A10, figure I'll try something similar. Want to see if I can use Bane over a totem, as I really like that skill, but not sure if it will be a good fit at map level.
Evernothing
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Maybe one of you guys can help me here:
Here is the build I'm following mostly: Forum - Ranger - [3.6] FunRoom's Crit Herald of Agony PathFinder [League Starter] [Uber Elder] [Beginner's Guide] - Path of Exile
Here is my char: View Profile - Path of Exile - Evernothing
PoB:
I have Projectile Weakness curse on the quiver, so I can remove Pierce Support from the crawler right?
Just keep Vicious Projectiles on HoAg all the time maybe?
I only have 5L Coming Calamity at the moment.
I'm not sure if I should have Minion Damage or the Phys to Light conversion. Minion Damage shows more DPS in PoB, but I don't think that takes into account the the resist debuff from EE?
Here is the build I'm following mostly: Forum - Ranger - [3.6] FunRoom's Crit Herald of Agony PathFinder [League Starter] [Uber Elder] [Beginner's Guide] - Path of Exile
Here is my char: View Profile - Path of Exile - Evernothing
PoB:
I have Projectile Weakness curse on the quiver, so I can remove Pierce Support from the crawler right?
Just keep Vicious Projectiles on HoAg all the time maybe?
I only have 5L Coming Calamity at the moment.
I'm not sure if I should have Minion Damage or the Phys to Light conversion. Minion Damage shows more DPS in PoB, but I don't think that takes into account the the resist debuff from EE?
Xevy
Log Wizard
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You're absolutely right. At the end he kept saying that Inquisitor was the way to go as the AE clear was irrelevant and if you're going off pen alone Inq is the way to go. He pretty much told everyone to go Inquisitor if they intend to do bosses. The other reason he didn't play was he hated Inqusitors as he thought they were too overpowered and did everything he could to avoid one. He's only doing one right now in this league because of the Consecrated Ground changes.
Zindan
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I get too distracted with this league, but maybe that is due to starting at the very beginning rather than a month later like last league. Playing pretty consistently, but now on my 3rd character: 24 totem chieftain, 51 storm burst Inq, and now a 67 bane witch. Just now got to Blood Aqueducts and did Cruel Lab. I just can't seem to stay focused on completing the Story... Nexus and Delve are too enticing. Probably going to end up making a 4th since the Witch I am running is using a passive tree by RaizQT, but he died in HC and switched to a Death's Oath build (seems stupidly OP).. and I never had a clear idea what he was "going for" with the previous tree. I mainly picked it because it didn't use low life or CI.
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Curious that he thought them op last league. All the sources of pen would suggest otherwise.
Xevy
Log Wizard
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Where every other class scraps and scrapes for pen, you just stack crit/cm/flat. Huge QoL for gearing. Don't need EE, don't need pen gem, don't need pen nodes. Just stack crit until maxed with diamond, then crit multi. Extra stats? Flat damage. Fucking destroy everything. It's like the spell equivalent of how powerful "hits cannot be evaded" is. Just allows you to streamline gearing.
His Inq was Winter Orb and was his 16th build of the season. He thought both were OP and boring so he kept pushing them til the end. They're basically his final realistic build. His following are a bleed bow berserker (lul), DORYANI'S FIST ELEMENTALIST, and finally Paradoxica Wild Strike. He saved the Paradoxica as well because he didn't want to fuck the market for it. He got nearly one of the best rolls like week 2 and just sat on it because he didn't want the flippers to destroy the market for a potentially fun item.
His Inq was Winter Orb and was his 16th build of the season. He thought both were OP and boring so he kept pushing them til the end. They're basically his final realistic build. His following are a bleed bow berserker (lul), DORYANI'S FIST ELEMENTALIST, and finally Paradoxica Wild Strike. He saved the Paradoxica as well because he didn't want to fuck the market for it. He got nearly one of the best rolls like week 2 and just sat on it because he didn't want the flippers to destroy the market for a potentially fun item.
AladainAF
Best Rabbit
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This just happened to me. This really pisses me off. If you're going to make me follow the rules that I can't put an island that doesn't connect to everything around me, then you jolly god damn better well not be able to either, you fucking game. I was lucky, in that I was able to remove my not-yet-run piece, and replace it with another that I just so happened to still have available, but if I didn't that would have made me really upset.
zombiewizardhawk
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Oh yeah soulrend would leech off the warlords mark (and the leech on soulrend gem itself). Intensify actually would be a nice 4th link for contagion. I haven't really looked at most of the new gems so I didn't even think about that.
ronne
Nǐ hǎo, yǒu jīn zi ma?
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This nexus mechanic is actually just a joke right? All 3 nexus portals I've tried to make tonight to empty my inventory have resulted either in sending me to a random memory node, or giving me "memory decayed' errors despite that very obviously not being the case. The second one especially fun because you can't use the waypoint or even exit to char select - you have to fucking alt-f4 the game and relaunch entirely to even play again.
What a fucking mess.
What a fucking mess.
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AladainAF
Best Rabbit
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Leaving a fully collapsed memory will decay the memory if you go back to the nexus.
Yes, that's a shit way to do it and it needs to be fixed (and they said as such I think)
zombiewizardhawk
Potato del Grande
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Sold a pair of gloves tonight for 30c and bought a 6link sac garb (cause the better EVA/ES bases were way more expensive) for 65c (all of my moneys). Now I just need to find an exalt so I can buy a level 3 empower heh.
Penance
Silver Baronet of the Realm
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I've rerolled 2 times and am now on on my 3rd character. First character was soul rend. Fun enough but I wanted to do Occultist. Rerolled witch and decided after I got 2 ascendancies in I figured Elementalist would be better with winter orb. After I respecced to ele I found out I didn't like winter orb as much as I thought I would (was fine with BV and figured this would be identical). Not saying I couldn't make it work, I'll keep the character and advance it later. Now I'm almost in maps on my 3rd character (btw took these characters to 90/72) and gotta say Occultist/Vortex is absolutely bonkers. This is the character I need in my life. Now just waiting for them to fix the nexus so I can start enjoying the mechanic.
Want to go Inquisitor Divine Ire next, but I gotta kill Uber Elder with one of these characters first before I reroll again.
Want to go Inquisitor Divine Ire next, but I gotta kill Uber Elder with one of these characters first before I reroll again.
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ronne
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That's not true though - it's like 50/50 if your portal will work. I've done chains of like 3 decaying nodes and was able to portal back and sell after clearing each one, then continue on my path. They only vanish from the map and stop working at all if you manually remove them, or start up another node which "advances" the nexus map or however you want to put it.
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Finalizing my gear, right now I'm wondering if I should bother getting enough over capped resists to do elemental weakness maps without relying on perma curse immunity/a resist flask, or if I should get my chaos resist up instead. I can get to like 15-20% over cap with ~15-20% positive chaos resist, or I could drop a bunch of the chaos resist and be at like -20% and get MAYBE to 35% over cap(it seems more annoying tbh, I need a god like ring to get there). Feels like just spamming my curse immunity flask would do the job just fine.
Zindan
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Weird, the only nodes which have persisted after they've decayed, and when also showing no more uses, were all the special nodes. None of the nodes I've placed on the map have stayed after I moved to a different node.
dizzie
Triggered Happy
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There's lots of threads on reddit about chancing it. Read about people getting a headhunter in the first map they do and others that have used 20k orbs and not chanced it.
In Delve I was a total noob and my currency tab was set to public, i never used them so ended up with 4k or so of them, some guy messaged me and offered me 5 ex for them all so I said fuck yeah..
It's probably faster to go and farm shit to get a headhunter if that's what you want.
People do try chancing it - really hit or miss though and you could be trying all league and all the shit you need could end up costing you as much as just buying the cards for it.
With my RNG i'm not even attempting it.
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I think I finally root caused my issues with the new chaos dot skills, at least as a league starter. First, but likely not foremost, I'm a baddie and I can't do builds that have poor sustain. I'd rather let shit hit me than play the never-get-hit game.
Which leads to my other reason: this game does not support dodging while DPSing very well. I've probably had this realization before but forgot it, whatever. Unless where you want to move and where you want to kill are in the same approximate areas(hi2u clearspeedmeta), you'll likely need to dodge. The slower you kill, the more you have to dodge.
I had this realization while I was doing 20s level fragment that had way too much fucking density, trying to flick my mouse back and forth, applying Bane to the monsters trailing me, moving away from them, avoiding the new ones in front of me, and figuring out which is the right way to go. That actually sounds like fun if the UI was built for it, but it's not. Having to aim your DPS skill exacerbates the issue further.
For like the last three days I've been trying to figure out why I like Molten Strike but dislike Bane when they have the same coverage and I think the above is why. I think the game could use a way to move your character independently of your mouse and then the developers could likely slow the game down like they've claimed they want to.
Which leads to my other reason: this game does not support dodging while DPSing very well. I've probably had this realization before but forgot it, whatever. Unless where you want to move and where you want to kill are in the same approximate areas(hi2u clearspeedmeta), you'll likely need to dodge. The slower you kill, the more you have to dodge.
I had this realization while I was doing 20s level fragment that had way too much fucking density, trying to flick my mouse back and forth, applying Bane to the monsters trailing me, moving away from them, avoiding the new ones in front of me, and figuring out which is the right way to go. That actually sounds like fun if the UI was built for it, but it's not. Having to aim your DPS skill exacerbates the issue further.
For like the last three days I've been trying to figure out why I like Molten Strike but dislike Bane when they have the same coverage and I think the above is why. I think the game could use a way to move your character independently of your mouse and then the developers could likely slow the game down like they've claimed they want to.
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